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A New Theory Suggests the Universe Has Been Around Twice as Long as Believed

Early universe observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cannot be explained by current cosmological models. These models estimate the universe to be 13.8 billion years in age, based on the Big Bang expanding universe concept. My research proposes a model that determines the universe’s age to be 26.7 billion years, which accounts for ...

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Galaxy NGC 6822.

How Giant Baby Galaxies are Shaking up our Understanding of the Early Universe

“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of galaxies in the distant universe. It is July 2022, barely a week after those first images from the revolutionary super telescope were released. Twenty-five years in the making, a hundred to a ...

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Six candidate assive galaxies.

Do ‘Bouncing Universes’ Have a Beginning?

 In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles called “bouncing universes.” Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the universe should have no beginning and no end — only eternal cycles of growing and shrinking that extend forever into the future, ...

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Bouncing universes have no beginning and no end.

Hubble Makes Surprising Find in the Early Universe

New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early Universe took place sooner than previously thought. A European team of astronomers has found no evidence of the first generation of stars, known as Population III stars, as far back as when the Universe was ...

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The early universe.

Galaxy Formation Simulated Without Dark Matter

For the first time, researchers from Bonn University and Strasbourg University have simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe that works without dark matter. Instead, they modified Newton’s laws of gravity to simulate this process on the computer.  A galaxy that is created with computer calculations is similar to those that we actually see today ...

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The simulated formation of galaxies without dark matter.

Dark Matter May Be Older Than the Big Bang, Study Suggests

Dark matter, which researchers believe makes up about 80 percent of the universe’s mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. A recent study indicates it may be older than the Big Bang. The study, published in Physical Review Letters, presents a new idea of how this matter was born and how to ...

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A full eclipse.